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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...consume 75% less energy to generate the equivalent light, but my furnace has to make up for the heat no longer provided by the incandescent bulb. Since there are also disposal issues (CFLs contain mercury), I suggest that CFLs be used only in the refrigerator. Richard Wilhelm, Port Angeles, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...earnest ex--file clerk went on to become Dave's fumbling, inadvertently hilarious lucky charm. Before retiring in 2003, he covered the 1994 Olympics in Norway, mock hawked products like Toast on a Stick and greeted tourists with hot towels at New York City's seedy Port Authority bus terminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...consume 75% less energy to generate the equivalent light, but my furnace has to make up for the heat no longer provided by the incandescent bulb. Since there are also disposal issues (cfls contain mercury), I suggest that cfls be used only in the refrigerator. Richard Wilhelm, PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

AZERBAIJAN Halts oil shipments to Russian Black Sea port after sharp gas-price hikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia in Conflict | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...months later, none of it has materialized. I sought port but got Powerade. The extracurricular fair was especially Kafkaesque. What’s this “Bah’ai,” for example? When will the Veritones get around to singing “God Save the Queen”? Why am I the only one wearing jodhpurs? Harvard was hardly the sheltered time capsule I wanted—needed?...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: To The Queen’s Head | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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